Saturday, February 20, 2010

You know what they say "you need to slow down to see some certain things". In case of web-development, sometimes you need to emulate a realistically slow internet connection to see some problems with your project. See how quickly it loads up, how it receives the images, especially it useful to test file-uploads and ajax operations. So here is a little tip how can slow down requests to your local server to test the things properly.

Under OS X you have access to the FreeBSD traffic shaping util ipfw. First of all you need to define some rule which will work on local interactions.